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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the name of an Algonquian Native American tribe from Rhode Island?
(a) The Narragansett tribe.
(b) The Pocomtuc tribe.
(c) The Nipmuc tribe.
(d) The Mohegan tribe.

2. According to the author, many colonists found it hard to write about the war, such as what individual who felt totally devastated by his experience of the burning of Springfield?
(a) John Pynchon.
(b) William Hubbard.
(c) Richard Callicot.
(d) John Alderman.

3. How many houses in Medfield, Massachusetts, were destroyed by Native Americans during King Philip's War in 1675?
(a) 40.
(b) 25.
(c) 27.
(d) 32.

4. A Narrative of the Troubles with the Indians was published in what year?
(a) 1642.
(b) 1676.
(c) 1612.
(d) 1677.

5. In 1600, the population of the Wampanoag numbered approximately how many members?
(a) 5,000.
(b) 15,000.
(c) 12,000.
(d) 10,000.

6. When was William Hubbard born?
(a) 1642.
(b) 1677.
(c) 1621.
(d) 1676.

7. What was the capital city of the Massachusetts Bay colony?
(a) Cambridge.
(b) Jamestown.
(c) Plymouth.
(d) Boston.

8. When did Hugo Grotius die?
(a) 1642.
(b) 1677.
(c) 1645.
(d) 1672.

9. What was a Native American tribe formerly inhabiting western Massachusetts, especially around the confluence of the Deerfield and Connecticut Rivers in Franklin County?
(a) The Pocomtuc tribe.
(b) The Nipmuc tribe.
(c) The Narragansett tribe.
(d) The Mohegan tribe.

10. When was the book A Relation of the Troubles which Have Hapned in New-England by Reason of the Indians There from the Year 1614 to the Year 1675 published?
(a) 1612.
(b) 1677.
(c) 1676.
(d) 1642.

11. When was Narrative of the Troubles with the Indians published?
(a) 1612.
(b) 1688.
(c) 1677.
(d) 1658.

12. What does "bashaba" mean?
(a) Child of the shaman.
(b) Enemy.
(c) White man.
(d) Chief of chiefs.

13. What, according to the author, is in many ways a simple tool and is often controlled by the powerful, because it can be used to change minds?
(a) Mythology.
(b) Literacy.
(c) Voting rights.
(d) Religion.

14. A prodigious learner, Hugo Grotius entered the University of Leiden when he was how old?
(a) 11.
(b) 16.
(c) 15.
(d) 12.

15. In the 1670s the powwaws of many tribes encouraged war in order to do what?
(a) Preserve the Indian way of life.
(b) Eradicate the colonists.
(c) Appease the gods.
(d) Purify their blood.

Short Answer Questions

1. Passaconaway is a name which translates to what in English?

2. What is the name of a group of Algonquian Indians native to Worcester County, Massachusetts?

3. Who was the first Englishman to learn the Algonquian language?

4. Medfield, Massachusetts, was first settled in what year?

5. One house, known as what, was burnt in King Philip's War but was rebuilt shortly thereafter near downtown Medfield, Massachusetts?

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